Students explore global data about AIDS, and apply statistical methods to draw inferences about this global health issues.

Students research the economies of countries in the Group of 8 and present how their economies have changed over the past five years and how the relationships among these countries affect each other in light of world events. Finally, they individually reflect on how the war with Iraq has impacted the economy of one of the Group of 8 members.

Students explore how wealthy Americans acquired their fortunes using a baseball analogy of the advantages of starting on third base.

The regularly updated Facts & Figures website present the most current trends in cancer occurrence and survival, as well as information on symptoms, prevention, early detection and treatment. Data can be disaggregated by race, gender, geography, and other factors.

Given 3 communities on a coordinate plane - one White, one Black, one Latinx - and their proximity to healthy food, students use the distance formula and their own ideas about equity to determine the location for building a new grocery store.

This unit integrates literature, music, and cooperative learning into middle school mathematics. Students will learn to use decimals, percents, and make predictions about their own spending.

In this unit, students evolve their understanding of perimeter, area, and similarity, particularly how they can be practically applied, while developing a better understanding of issues of hunger and poverty in our community.

Students explore monthly data from a 1-year period when the US was at war in Iraq, and use different methods to calculate averages based on the desired outcome from three assigned perspectives.

Students explore how exploitative financial institutions are prevalent in low-income communities, and the mechanisms they use to take advantage of people. Students investigate compounding interest on loans.

Students construct histograms using data about Black disenfranchisement rates

Broad range of data which can be disaggregated by factors including geography, age, race, gender, covering topics including crime, incarceration, violent crimes, school arrests, prisons, etc.

Comprehensive website with searchable data sets about a wide range of health-related topics including asthma, life expectancy, tobacco use, diabetes, food-borne illness, etc.